Thrilling Gay Poll Of the Day: Gay Star News

Gay Star News - who've just been told again by the Advertising Standards Authority to stop printing 'marketing communications' as news.

Do you hate your readers that much?

See also this harrowing story...

For god's sake CLOSE IT DOWN!

Gay Star News: The Funniest Thing You'll Read This Month!

Gay Star News.

I'm sorry??!!!

'GSN chose not to report...  concerned the facts had not been fully substantiated.'

WHEN HAS THAT EVER STOPPED YOU BEFORE?

PS Overlooking for a moment the utter fairy stories GSN regularly run about Russia, Africa and the Middle East, here are two top 'news' stories now on GSN; a ludicrously unreliable study about LGBT domestic violence (charity seeking funding over-estimates problem shocker), and Meet the man who bought 150 hats so he could have sex; actually undeclared advertorial for a Harley Street cosmetic surgeon, the Advertising Standards are investigating GSN over this yet again!

Hard to believe how much contempt these scumbags have for their readers.

PS Many of GSN's Facebook 'likes' are clustered in rather obscure foreign locations. Have asked them if these were bought off the internet. I'll let you know their reply as soon as.

Country Life: Too Many Syllables

Some bullying members of the militant homosexual lobby are on the virtual warpath because Country Life have run an advert for Coalition 4 Marriage.
Many people are leaving complaints on the magazine's Facebook page. 
Good for them - though I can't say I'm particularly arsed about it.
Is anyone surprised Country Life have done this?
This is the third place to my knowledge where C4M has tried to place adverts - and they all show who they see as their natural constituencies.
Guido Fawkes blog has run a banner ad - take a look at any comments section and you'll see most of his readers are really nasty and scarily right-wing.  
I got into a brief Twitter row with editor Paul Staines about this.
He defended his actions by tweeting; "It is an advert by pro-marriage Christians. Not homophobic. I ran adverts for Ken Livingstone. Advertisement <> endorsement."
When asked if he did endorse it, came the reply; "Don't know, don't care. I just count the cash and re-stock the wine cellar."
The Womens' Institute were widely praised for refusing to run an ad for C4M last month.
They used the opposite argument to Mr Fawkes; "As WI Life is the national membership magazine, any promotion of your campaign could be seen as an endorsement... to members. We do also welcome all women to the WI and this campaign could offend many of our members."
Good for them.
The WI are often caricatured as being hilariously Middle England, and I guess C4M may have thought they'd be a shoo-in.
It's instructive and satisfying that that is no longer the case.
And Country Life?
It's the inhouse magazine of Upper England.
Though I can't pretend to read it every week, it's essentially a series of adverts for multi-million pound houses, broken up with advertorial about multi-million pound houses - note the cover above shows Country Life's idea of a smaller country house.
Plus there's a few pictures of posh totty debs, and some doubtlessly positively gripping articles about hunting, shooting, dogging and farming.
Of course Country Life ran the ad!
What do you expect from the Coalition 4 Inbreeding?

Update: Email from Julia Dawson, Complaints Executive, Advertising Standards Authority, on Tuesday, saying the ASA are to investigate complaints that the "70%" claim on the C4M ads is misleading...